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The day before yesterday I went to some sort of international anime festival they had in Tokyo. They had a bunch of indie artsy stuff on display as well as mainstream anime and animation from other countries. Tunisia even had a booth.

By the way, there's a lot of advertisements for Vocaloid over here, as well as a bunch of Hatsune Miku merch.

Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

The only anime I've watched extensively are Pokémon and Yu-Gi-Oh! up to season 3. Not much to go on, I know. Dragonball, Sailor Moon, and Cardcaptor Sakura look appealing, though. Of course, any other recommendations are welcome.

Never really got involved with the fandoms of any particular anime, so I can't comment on that.

The Tunisian stuff looked more or less low budget and political. The indie stuff looked very interesting and pretty. They had some stop motion stuff with novel materials, some trippy computer animated stuff, and really colorful... patterns? Some of it defies description, but it was pretty sweet.

And for fuck's sake, ignore fans if they annoy you. You don't have to become or interact with shitty people if you just enjoy a work.

Avoiding the bad part of the assorted anime fandoms can easily be accomplished by not going to Sankaku Complex or /a/.

Problem solved.

That said if the idea of fandoms itself annoys you, well, I don't know what to tell you.

The indie stuff looked very interesting and pretty. They had some stop motion stuff with novel materials, some trippy computer animated stuff, and really colorful... patterns? Some of it defies description, but it was pretty sweet.

I see that indie anime is still very much the type of stuff I used to see on SameHat! back when I followed it. Good to know.

maybe it is because of how ridiculous the plot is and how serious it thinks it is?

Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

Not a fan of a lot of these series. About the only series I watched in full was FLCL, which is only 6 episodes. Studio Ghibli films are also one of the exceptions, but what do you expect, they're great films on their own.

Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

For the most part, I don't care one way or the other whether what I watch is dubbed or subbed. But I think I'm accustomed enough to Pokémon's English dub that watching a subtitled version with the Japanese dialogue would feel a little weird. Not a good or a bad kind of weird, just neutral weird. I'm not sure exactly why this is.

Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

^^Well, derp. I was wondering if there were any other factors involved, though.

Also, yes, I am used to the anime dub where rice ball treats are jelly donuts.

Remember back in the 50s when they'd record like Elvis singing YOU AIN'T NOTHIN BUT A HOUND DOG and then they'd turn the record over and reverse it and it was all NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP NYERP and people were all like, "That is actually the voice of Satan coming from that song."

^Well, they did look like powdered donuts, at least. I have absolutely no clue where ice cream bars, sandwiches, and chocolate eclairs came from, though.

From what I've read elsewhere, they did eventually give it up and start calling them rice balls most of the times they appeared.

Friday and I are watching Bleach. It goes a lot faster if you skip all the filler and episode recaps. There's only about 15 minutes of new material worth watching per episode. Also we end up skipping 20 or 40 episodes at a time due to filler.

Recently finished watching Durarara.

Currently watching Nurarihyon no Mago because it's chock full of all so wonderfully quirky Japanese folklore spirits.

Disliking the anime fandom strikes me as a good reason to not hang out in anime forums or talk about watching the stuff in public, but I am not sure it makes as much sense as a reason to not watch Japanimation at all since how fans act does not actually have much of an impact on the quality of existing shows.

That being said, I do think people are entitled to their opinions and there are plenty of reasons to dislike anime or to prefer other pastimes.